Alina Kukarina on why AI transformation begins before choosing the technology
Alina Kukarina on why AI transformation begins before choosing the technology

AI investment has expanded rapidly, with organizations introducing copilots, agents, and generative AI across functions. Yet the business transformation many leaders anticipated can remain difficult to identify. A 2026 analysis found that nearly 40% of…

AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it’s pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030
AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it’s pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030

AMD says its 2025 rack-scale AI system is 4X more energy efficient compared to its 2024 AI solution, though does not produce actual benchmark results.

The economics of a voice agent: what a minute of conversation actually costs
The economics of a voice agent: what a minute of conversation actually costs

Most voice agent pricing starts with a single number: voice agent cost per minute. However, this figure doesn’t reveal much about the real cost of running a production system. I discovered this firsthand while building and running a voice agent for ent…

Situational Awareness ran two auctions at once, and one set of bidders never knew
Situational Awareness ran two auctions at once, and one set of bidders never knew

Situational Awareness lost roughly $30bn in July. The desk reported that three weeks ago. What happened inside those six days has not. Gregory Zuckerman, Juliet Chung and Peter Rudegeair have reconstructed it for the Wall Street Journal, and the sequen…

An AirTag in a rare book led to an Amazon book scanning warehouse in Las Vegas
An AirTag in a rare book led to an Amazon book scanning warehouse in Las Vegas

A bookseller hid an AirTag inside a rare book and let it go with a bulk order. The tracker travelled across the United States and stopped at a warehouse in Las Vegas owned by Amazon. Emanuel Maiberg reported the result for 404 Media on Monday. Booksell…

China’s homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country’s domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD
China’s homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country’s domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD

China could become almost self-sufficient in high-end AI accelerators in 2026 as Chinese IHVs led by Huawei expected to supply 90% of AI processors used domestically.

Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized passenger records

A U.S. bankruptcy court auctioned off Spirit Airlines’ treasure trove of data, with Google making the winning bid. The tech giant is paying $10 million for various information, including hundreds of millions of emails and Microsoft Teams conversations, and billions of flight pricing data and transaction records.

Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to AI and still can’t be sued — federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity

A U.S. federal court has ruled that a judge accused of relying entirely on AI to make a judicial decision can still retain judicial immunity from civil lawsuits, although the ruling does not determine whether such use of AI is legally or ethically permissible.

Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is ‘all’ the Vegas warehouse does
Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is ‘all’ the Vegas warehouse does

404 Media placed an AirTag inside a shipment of 1,000 books, which landed at an Amazon facility that reportedly spends all day cutting the spine off of, and scanning, books.

How many cars’ worth of CO2 will US data centres really emit?
How many cars’ worth of CO2 will US data centres really emit?

A new study out of Cornell has handed the AI industry’s climate critics a fresh statistic to wield, and the internet has duly rounded it up. Planned US data centres, one widely shared headline announced, are set to produce as much carbon dioxide as 24 …